In about 1986, Mark Adams planted 15,000 white mangroves in the mud at Stony Creek under the Westgate Bridge. Fifteen thousand! Spelling out that number, not just because it’s so huge, but because planting into the slipperiness of mud is about as difficult as planting conditions can be. After a century of petro-chemical discharge from […]
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Yarra & Bay
All about the Bay
Landscape and citizen led transformation The photo is harsh and stark in its black and greyness. Taken not long after the completion of the Westgate Bridge, it is an engineering portrait taken from an aerial vantage point somewhere above Webb Dock. Take a look at the ground plane. All that land south of the Bridge […]
PEOPLE
A Story of Dedication
23 March 2017 A group of supporters gathered here to mark the completion of 365 continuous days of litter surveys on this 35m of beach in Port Melbourne. Ross and Ramona Headifen counted every single piece of litter a naked eye could see. The results: 125,520 pieces of litter – all plastic. 75% of them were in […]
Planning
EES – 1987 & 2017
Environmental Effects Statement under the Environment Effects Act 1978 The house at 58 Station Street, Port Melbourne is for sale. Somehow this very small house has survived. Thirty years ago Mrs Myrtle Tims, then 89, sat on her verandah in the late afternoon sun mourning the loss of the Port Melbourne train that was to be […]
Heritage
Gasworks Arts Park
Gasworks. Shorthand for a place that means so much to so many people (and their dogs) – a focal point for the surrounding community. It was almost thirty years after gas production ceased at Gasworks in 1957 that Gasworks Arts Park came into being. Following a long period of dereliction, the site’s future was secured […]
Port of Melbourne
Future Port
The advice is in. Bay West is preferred to Hastings as the location for Melbourne’s future port, according to advice given to the Victorian Government by Infrastructure Victoria. The trigger for the move is suggested to be when Port capacity reaches 8 million TEU which it anticipates will be around 2055. TEUs unfamiliar to you as […]
PORT MELBOURNE
Six Degrees – Two Awards
Six Degrees Architects work on the Albert Park College Environmental Arts Hub received two awards at the 2017 Victorian Architecture Awards: the Henry Bastow Award for Educational Architecture and the John George Knight Award for Heritage Architecture Amid the lamented recent loss of local heritage buildings, the sensitive restoration of the former Sandridge Post Office and […]
FISHERMANS BEND & MONTAGUE
Sand
They may not quite be the ridges that gave Sandridge its name but Port’s dunes are beginning to undulate – their soft forms covered with coastal grasses. Sand accretes in some places and decreases in others as the sand swishes around Hobsons Bay. Beaches are managed and manicured and replenished from inland quarry sources – […]
PlACES NEARBY
Mangroves
In about 1986, Mark Adams planted 15,000 white mangroves in the mud at Stony Creek under the Westgate Bridge. Fifteen thousand! Spelling out that number, not just because it’s so huge, but because planting into the slipperiness of mud is about as difficult as planting conditions can be. After a century of petro-chemical discharge from […]